Finance manager

The Financial Accounting Manager is responsible for the accuracy, integrity and control of accounting across a portfolio of legal entities and jurisdictions. Based in London, the role leads key elements of the monthly, quarterly and year-end close, maintaining strong balance sheet governance and ensuring that financial records are complete, timely and compliant with Group policy, IFRS and applicable local requirements.

• Own the financial accounting and general ledger integrity for an assigned portfolio of entities across multiple jurisdictions.
• Lead key components of the month-end, quarter-end and year-end close, ensuring delivery to timetable and a consistently high standard of accuracy.
• Review and approve journals, reconciliations and accounting schedules, ensuring that entries are appropriately supported and issues are resolved at source.
• Oversee accruals, prepayments, intercompany balances, foreign exchange, investments and equity accounting, fixed assets and other key accounting areas within the assigned remit.
• Ensure trial balances and entity-level results are complete, accurate and ready for Group consolidation and reporting.
• Co-ordinate with local advisers and internal stakeholders to address jurisdiction-specific accounting, statutory and compliance matters.
• Lead balance sheet governance for the assigned entities, including timely preparation, review, certification and resolution of reconciling items.
• Maintain clear accounting records, process documentation and audit trails that meet internal control and external audit requirements.
• Ensure accounting treatments are consistent with Group accounting policies, IFRS and applicable local statutory requirements, escalating complex or judgemental matters appropriately.
• Support statutory accounts, external audit, corporation tax, VAT and other regulatory reporting processes by providing accurate schedules and responding to queries promptly.
• Identify financial control risks and implement practical, sustainable remediation plans.
• Identify and deliver opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate accounting processes across entities and jurisdictions.
• Challenge manual processes, recurring adjustments and legacy ways of working, applying root-cause analysis to prevent issues from recurring.
• Lead improvement initiatives from problem definition and process design through testing, implementation, documentation and adoption.
• Use Oracle Fusion, OneStream, Smart View, Microsoft Excel and other available technologies to improve data quality, close efficiency, transparency and control.
• Develop standard templates, reconciliations, controls and reporting routines that can be scaled across the Group.
• Promote exception-based review and reduce reliance on spreadsheets, manual intervention and individual knowledge where appropriate.
• Take end-to-end ownership of issues and drive actions through to a clear and timely resolution.
• Manage and develop up to two direct reports, setting clear expectations, reviewing output and building technical and professional capability.
• Build effective relationships with colleagues across Group Reporting, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Accounts Payable, operational finance and local teams.
• Communicate complex accounting matters clearly and provide constructive challenge to stakeholders at all levels.
• Act as a trusted deputy on relevant accounting and control matters and contribute proactively to wider Group Finance priorities.

• Communication: You can demonstrate experience/capability to engage and communicate effectively (spoken and written) across diverse stakeholder groups. (R)
• Collaboration: You can demonstrate how you use have used collaboration to effectively deliver, and to create and/or contribute to wider team empowerment and value. (R)
• Innovation: You can demonstrate how you have used problem solving to identify opportunities to responsibly improve ways of working and/or established outcomes, within your scope of influence (R)
• Continuous Improvement: You can demonstrate how you have invested in developing you own (and others) skills, experience, and output. And how this has contributed to personal and/or wider business value. (R)
• Leadership: You can demonstrate how through your understanding of your own personal impact and responsibility, that you have led by example and brought others along with you on the journey. (R)
• Fully qualified accountant: ACA, ACCA, or equivalent.
• Substantial post-qualification financial accounting experience within a complex, international or multi-entity organisation.
• Strong practical knowledge of month-end close, general ledger accounting, balance sheet control, intercompany accounting and financial reporting.
• Experience overseeing entities in more than one jurisdiction and working with local statutory, tax or audit requirements.
• Demonstrable experience improving finance processes, controls or systems, with evidence of personally moving initiatives from idea to implementation.
• Experience reviewing the work of others and developing team capability.
• Strong ERP and reporting systems capability; experience with Oracle Fusion, OneStream and Smart View is advantageous.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and confidence working with large or complex financial data sets.
• Drive and initiative: Acts without waiting for detailed direction, maintains momentum and follows through on commitments.
• Ownership: Takes responsibility for outcomes, investigates issues thoroughly and ensures sustainable resolution.
• Transformation mindset: Questions the status quo and looks for simpler, more controlled and more scalable ways of working.
• Technical credibility: Applies sound judgement, understands the detail and can explain accounting conclusions clearly.
• Leadership potential: Raises standards, develops others and has the ambition and capability to take on broader responsibility.
• Collaboration and challenge: Builds trusted relationships while remaining confident in providing constructive challenge.
• Adaptability: Operates effectively across jurisdictions, cultures and changing business priorities.
• Integrity: Demonstrates consistently high ethical standards and protects the quality and reliability of financial information.
• The successful candidate will be required to complete pre-employment screening to BS7858:2019, or national equivalent.

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